Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] support console resolutions better than 80x25

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> 2) On all ATI cards I tested the font loading code on so far there
is
>> a
>> (hardware) flaw that doesn't permit loading the font into other
than
>> font
>> slot zero; the code, however, defaults to load the font into slot
2,
>> which
>> means that on ATI cards this currently only works with an
additional
>> command line option "fontslot=0". The purpose of loading into slot
2
>> is
>> to preserve the (BIOS provided) font in slot 0 (perhaps slots 0 and
>> 1),
>> as would Linux do if it didn't set BROKEN_GRAPHICS_PROGRAMS
>> (almost) unconditionally (in include/linux/vt_kern.h).
>
>Sounds like it'd be better to make slot 0 the default and require
override
>if the user really cares about the BIOS font data. That sounds a lot
less
>likely than someone trying to use the higher-res text mode on an ATI
adapter
>and getting confused when it doesn't work!

So would you want me to send an updated patch, or will you do the one
line change once you commit the whole thing?

Jan

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